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This Law of Bioethics: Individual Autonomy & Social Reg. Cases & Materials casebook provides a contextual account of developing law by drawing on patients' accounts of their illnesses, doctors' reports of their encounters with patients, ethicists' reflections on our duties to ourselves and those around us, researchers’ findings on how medical decisions are made, the results those decisions produce, and the impact of various forms of legal regulation. It offers a wide range of practical, skill-building problems with larger conceptual issues about how law works and American culture functions.

Table of Contents includes:The Principle of Autonomy: The Example of Informed Consent;The Principle of Autonomy: Law at the End of Life;Killing;Deciding for Others: Autonomy or Beneficence?;The Body as Commodity;Reproduction and Birth;Autonomy in a Bureaucratic World.

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